The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-08-04
IOWA STATE NEWS.

A company at wilton Will bore Tor
gas.
Burlington has decided to try hard
prick paving.
The Oskaloosa district campmeeting
will commence Aug. l.
4 son Of Fred Snyder, in Washington
county. was killed by lightning on Sun
lay.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed By the Marshalltown Band, with
capital stock Of *4OO.
The Messrs. Huiskamp Bros. are
thinking Of concentrating their exten-
sive factories in keokuk.
Secretary Shaffcr has let the straw
contract of fifty tons, for the State Fair,
to Chilson q Bovec. Of Des Moines.
Senator Wilson has consented to ad-
,lress the republican convention of
Poweshiek county on the 10th of Aug
uSt.
Rev. Mr.. Marsh. Albion. it is said.
was offered $500 to pitch the rest of
the season with western club, but he
refused it.
John Beard. at Muscatine. seventy
seven years old. laid ninety feet Of eight
foot sidewalk during the two hottest
days Of last week.
Cedar Rapids is to have baby show
in September, ut which a Shetland pony
diamond necklace. gold watch and 9TH
a.. r.riynS vrfll ha nnrntN,fa.1
Two daughters Of w. F. Ballard. OF
Audubon, were sent to the insane
asylum at Mt. Pleasant Monday.
Their father is almost broken-hearted
over the great calamity to both
daughters.
AT Manchester, last week, nine head
of thoroughbred Holstein-Freisian cattle
were poisoned by some unknown per-
,on, who threw paris green mixed with
salt in J. $. Edmund's pasture. Eight
of the animals died.
Asby ID. Packard, one Of the early
settlers of johnson county, died on
Friday last at his residence near Wind
ham in Hardin township. His illness
was long and painful one borne
heroically until the end came.
Pratt Wallace, an old resident of
Waterloo, died Of paralysis after being
sick l35 days, during which time he
lost nearly pound day, weighing
100 when attacked and only sixty
pounds the day he died.
Thomas Madden, an old and respected
settler at Mt. Sterling, fell from rack
while stacking hay, producing concus.
| sion Of the brain. which resulted in
death few hours later. He was buried
Sunday at Brush Chapel.
Sunday night 18th. at the opera house
at keokuk. Prof. Cunning in delivering
a lecture fell upon the stage before hi,
audience in dead faint. overcome b,
the heat. Medical aid was summoned
and he returned to consciousness.
Mr.. Henry Nj. Blough, OF Jefferson
county, and Mr.. d. NJ. Baughman. O
Davis county. have been appointed b,
Governor Larrabee as special commiss
toner's from Iowa to look after the in
terest of American horse breeders il
| France.
c. ID. Close & Co., linseed oil manu-
facturers Of Iowa City, filed articles o
incorporation with the Secretary O
State. The capital stock of the com
pany is placed at $4,000, and the in
corporatorS are G. d. Close, Helen S
Close and S. +. Paine.
The florists of Des Moines have beer
obliged to postpone their flower shows
which had been arranged for the middl,
| Of the month, A number of them ha,
made quite elaborate preparations, an,
the indications were that it would be
show well worth seeing. The dr.,
weather and want of water. however
compelled them to forego the pleasure
and the people will be obliged to wal
until later date to enjoy their flowers
| While on stack of hay Saturday
July l6, receiving the hay delivered b
derrick, with horse attached, Thoma
Madden, Of Vernon township. Va
Buren, county. fell from the stack an
died i'm few hours afterwards. II
stepped back rs fork of hay wa
delivered to him. and as the sprin
was let 60 the hay swung against hin
and he fell off backwards, striking O.
his head and shoulders. The distanc
was only seven or eight feet, but tn
force Of the fall was so severe as I
dislocate the upper part of the bae1
bone.
A badly dccomposed body wa
found in the Maquoketa river on Sunda
near Dubuque, and Coroner Hotfma
, went out to hold an inquest. The vel
. diet Of the jury was accidental drown
, ing. His clothes were found on tn
bank near by and every indicatio
that he had gone in to take bath an
got beyond his depth. The body vi,
so decomposed. having been in tn
water probably ten or twelve day.
that it could not be recognized. Th
Coroner was compelled to dig gray
! on the bank Of the stream and bur
him where he was found.
: The firm of Barnhart 4 Goen, pul
!, fishers of the Conservative at Indepel
, dence, has been dissolved. BY the +,
, tircment of Warren Barnhart from til
proprietorship the paper appears for ii
first time in thirty years without I'll
Barnhart name 1T the head Of il
columns Except a short time in II
early 6o's.) Four or five brothers .
. that name have been at divers tim,
since 1857 its proprietors, and the pro-
perty has never before passed who'll
out of the family. The three brother
who were chiefly connected with IL
. paper, Warren. A. Nj. and A. f. Al
e now principal owners Of the Gre.
P Western Type Foundry, Chicago.
i, The following has been issued: II
undersigned having received commun
i cations from large number of count
n attorneys of the State requesting Il
! call Of Il convention Of county attorn.,
and belieyeing that such mcetin
!, will be pleasant and profitable, herel
. give notice that there will be col
vention of all the county attorneys ,